As Twitchy reported earlier, Sen. Harry Reid was eager to help Hillary Clinton out of the fire by arguing that if Clinton were indicted for having classified material on her personal email account, then Colin Powell would have to be indicted too, now that State Department officials have revealed that classified information was also sent to the personal email accounts of former Secretary of State Colin Powell. Senior aides to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice are also said to have had classified material in their personal email accounts.

Two messages reportedly were sent to Powell’s personal account, and 10 to Rice’s senior aides.

The reaction of many? Get back to us when you find Powell’s unauthorized, personal home-brew email server with its own domain. Attorney and writer Gabriel Malor had another concern: What was the State Department doing investigating Powell’s email while blowing off a court-ordered deadline for Clinton’s emails?

!!! State Dept that didn't meet court-ordered deadline on Clinton emails had time to go through Powell, Rice emails. https://t.co/BoFZeS8HKz

The State Department, under court order to release thousands of pages of emails by January 29, explained that due to the snowstorm that hit Washington, D.C., it would need another month to come through with the goods; coincidently, some time after the New Hampshire primary.

IG had time to go through Powell, Rice emails from 2003 through 2008, but hasn't managed to finish Clinton emails on a shorter timeframe.

I’ll agree to go after Powell for his 2 classified emails and Rice for her 8 if you agree we should go after Clinton for her 1300-and-counting, and that the penalties be meted out proportionally. What do you say?

Acuda4me ✓Please!

Had the laws making it illegal even been passed back then?

Aparition42

Yes. It would fall under the auspices of removing classified material from its designated area. It doesn’t really matter if it’s email or scrolls. The law even lays out punishment for a person entrusted with classified material who loses classified material accidentally (up to ten years in prison). Although the claim here is that Powell received classified emails. If he handled that spill correctly then he’s done nothing wrong. If not then he’s guilty, and should be prosecuted.

The fact that anyone thinks people will change their mind because Clinton used the “but they did it too” defense is really telling about how much they care about the rule of law. They’re such partisan hacks, that they can’t conceive that everyone else isn’t. Why the heck would anyone think we should give Hillary Clinton a pass just because some other politicians were also guilty?

Karla1953

Yeah but his were left on gov’t servers he said as much…………………so it seems that they needed to find something and this is what they were doing with the extension of time. I mean it took them this long to realize this………………….GMAB this is called cover HRC’s azz……………EOS

Aparition42

Oh, I totally agree. But it isn’t totally about covering Hillary. Hillary is only one of hundreds of people that could be affected by this. This is a warning that they’ll try to take as many with them as they can.

The people who care about the rule of law don’t care about party, and they know that. This is a warning to the lifer politicians that no one is safe. “Come after me, and I’ll come after you.”

interestedobserver2

The sections of Title 10 US Code dealing with classified material have been in effect since the start of the Cold War, if not earlier…

teamfrazzled

No. I expect officials to actually keep their oaths -not use the excuse “but Jimmy did it too” as if that means everyone walks away scot free. If Rice and Power broke the law, prosecute them. But we all already know they did nothing on the same level as Hillary who belongs in prison for deliberately betraying the trust of the American people and put her own best interests before that of the nation itself. As usual. Now she expects to be rewarded with MORE power after proving she couldn’t be trusted with the power given to her in the past? My skin crawls at the thought.

FreedomFighter

Don’t count on Bernie to bring it up.

Maxx

She’ll never spend one night in jail. Not one.

…and we all know it.

gfnc55

Ya know, I can accept that if she never spends one night in the White House……I would prefer she spend many nights in jail but I’ll accept the trade off.

Jesse B. Hammer

..Of course she never will, because the DemoCronies in charge of the State-Dept & DOJ & FBI are beholden to their DemoEnablers, not to the rule of law. It’s why I keep saying “give-it-a-rest” with the “Hillary perp-walk pipe-dream”: no matter how much Obama allegedly hates Hillary (for what SMH), a fellow Democrat will NOT be indicted by his administration, NOT for any dereliction-of-duty that happens to benefit Dems.

Philly Cheesesteak

Unless said Democrat opposes The Anointed One on one if his “achievements.” AKA Bob Menendez

gfnc55

The level of corruption, collusion, and dishonesty rampant in the Obama administration is unfathomable. This fish is rotten from the head down. A banana republic would be a step up, a vast improvement.,

Mikey_Likes_It

gf, we are a banana republic. It’s called Barackistan.

CatHerder ✓fire! ✓fire!

So? Neither one of them are running for President.

Linda

Did Rice and Powell also have their own private servers and delete 30,00 e-mails each and wipe servers clean?

Carolyn#OYSD

And that my friends, is not just a squirrel, but a raycccciiissst squirrel to boot.

CatHerder ✓fire! ✓fire!

That is a tragedy of biblical proportions.

http://lordfoggybottom.com/ BlahBlah

Did I tell you there were black squirrels in Central Park? True story.

Fingolfin

I know some in Mirkwood.

kcinmo

Marysville, Kansas is known as “Black Squirrel City”. It’s the first and only place I’ve ever seen a black squirrel. They’re pretty cool looking.

IBXNJ

I have seen then at the Princeton University campus.

https://disqus.com/by/DocFarmer/ Doc Farmer✔ᶜᵒᵛᶠᵉᶠᵉ ᵈᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ

I’d never seen one until I moved to Cleveland. They’re cute little things!

Hard Charger

…till they harass and attack you! /

https://disqus.com/by/DocFarmer/ Doc Farmer✔ᶜᵒᵛᶠᵉᶠᵉ ᵈᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ

Nope, like virtually every other squirrel I’ve come across, these suckers run like hell too. Of course, I’d usually see them while walking my dog Bunnie (a beagle), so that MIGHT have had something to do with it…

tops116 ✓Quipper

I’m reasonably sure that whatever private email Powell and Rice used had a much more secure server than Hillary’s. That’s kind of the point here. Mishandling classified data is a crime, of course, but a big reason everyone’s up in arms about Hillary’s email scandal is that she brazenly left vital information on something far less secure than your average Google account. Couple all that with the simple fact that Hillary actively tried to cover up her wrongdoing. You could say it’s so simple that even a far left liberal could get it, but those guys are pretty damn stupid.

Karla1953

Oh and then there is this

Additionally, Powell said he never kept the emails in his possession when he left the State Department. Unlike Clinton, Powell’s emails remained in government computer servers

An aide to Rice, who now teaches at Stanford University, said that Rice herself never used email — not even a personal email account — during her tenure.

jaded

wot? No homebrew latrine servers? egads!

Tessa from Texas

So far I haven’t seen any mention of either of them having an in-home server. I thought that was the whole underlying problem with all of the Hillary mess.

http://lordfoggybottom.com/ BlahBlah

I fondly remember that time Condi and me stole candy from the deli. Good times.

Tessa from Texas

I cannot believe you two are not put away for life.

IBXNJ

She also ripped a “do not remove this tag” off a pillow.

cirby

The fun part is when you figure out that two mildly-classified emails were sent to Powell, and ten were sent to Rice’s staff (not her).

Man, that’s so sad that’s all they could come up with. Makes you realize just how screwed Hillary is. She literally has to win the Presidency in order to stay out of jail.

Prairie Sarah

The bureaucratic leviathan marches on. Will these “civil servants” ever be held to account?

Oysteria (I won)

And THAT is the 64 thousand dollar question. But we know the answer. They play by a different set of rules.

If Congress can engage in insider trading without repercussion, it’s all we need to know.

If an IRS manager can infringe on the rights of certain Americans to enjoy equal treatment and retire with a generous pension those same Americans now have to pay for, it’s all we need to know.

If a Congressman can drive off a bridge and leave a woman to drown without reporting it until the next day and serve in the Senate until he finally dies, it’s all we need to know.

If a Congressman has a long relationship with a male hooker who runs a prostitution ring out of your own basement and walk away scott-free to serve in Congress until you decide to retire, it’s all we need to know.

There are a lot more, but these are enough to know that some animals are more equal than others.

Prairie Sarah

Rome is burning.

Karla1953

Talk about…………….. oh look there is a squirrel

Mr. Powell, in a telephone interview, strongly disputed the department’s designation, saying he had reviewed the two emails with the inspector general’s office and responded incredulously, “What are you talking about?” The emails, he said, were sent by two career ambassadors and forwarded to him by his executive assistant, something he encouraged for important or urgent matters.
One involved a kidnapping in the Philippines, the other general views on the situation in the Middle East. Both, he said, were now considered “confidential.”

“That is an absurdity,” he said. If two seasoned diplomats could not discuss their views with the secretary in unclassified emails, he said, “we might as well shut the department down

Ms. Rice, now at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, was not available to comment, but her chief of staff, Georgia D. Godfrey, said that she did not use email or have a personal email account while secretary. She noted that the inspector general said the email in question involved “diplomatic conversations” sent to her assistants and contained “no intelligence information.”

MoxieLouise1

Welp. This is awkward.

Karla1953

IMO it is but what do I know LOL

genes ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵈᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ

so they could possibly railroad BF Powell and hang Prof. Rice’s former assistants?

Karla1953

Well you did not seem to have a problem with them indicting Powell in the other thread LOL.
Honestly though I see this as a real apples & oranges with the Hillary thing. For one Powell left all of his emails on the gov’t server that makes one wonder why it took all of these years to find it and then re classify it. Also what kind of non disclosure did they sign at the time and what procedures etc were in place. Also it seems that not only was Powell pro-active about going round with the IG(and disclosed what was in them/HRC did not)he has issued a statement saying this is bullshit. As far as Condi it has already been stated that there was not a shred of “intelligence” in her staff’s stuff just diplomatic stuff. Clintons cannot be revealed until 2036………………….not hearing the same for this lot JMO though as I am no expert and not trying to play one on the Twitch 🙂

genes ✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ᵈᵉᵖˡᵒʳᵃᵇˡᵉ

I don’t have a problem with a BF being indicted, but this looks more like a railroad.

Karla1953

I was just teasing you :-)…………….I frankly feel like this is just what I stated…………….oh look a squirrel but not even a good one. For one there were specific policies that were not followed that Obama put in place/it was a different time. My fear is not that they will railroad Powell but use this to not indict HRC.

MichellenotTHATone

Ironic for Powell to get caught up in this. That is what he gets for endorsing and voting for Obama.

MoxieLouise1

Think he’ll vote for Hillary??

The_Kat ✓vilified

That’s what I thought. Didn’t they realize that he is one of them?

Bklynnygirl

The Democrats’ New Game: State Goes Back and Retroactively Classifies Emails Sent to Powell’s and Rice’s Personal Accounts, So They Can Say “Everybody Does It”
—Ace

Then they leak this to Hillary Mob Lawyer Elijah Cummings, who in turn passes it on to the media.

Keep pushing it, guys.

The interesting thing here is that State can classify, or declassify, information originating with State. But they cannot classify, nor declassify, information originating with another service, like the CIA or NSA.

Hillary is claiming that State “disputes” the CIA’s and NSA’s determination that the information she was passing around was top-top-secret. Shockingly secret. State is disputing this on her behalf — but they have no such power to classify or declassify CIA or NSA information.

State does, however, have the power to retroactively classify emails originating from State — such as an Ambassador sending Colin Powell an email — and that, I say, is what they have done. I can’t prove this — but I know this. They are picking out some innocuous emails and saying “Those are now classified” in order to provide cover to this disgusting vulture they’ve already been providing cover to.

Colin Powell suggests as much — at least that these are perfectly innocuous, being falsely claimed to be classified.

In a statement, Powell said the two emails he received were not judged to contain confidential information at the time they were sent to him by American ambassadors.

“I wish they would release them,” Powell told NBC News, “so that a normal, air-breathing mammal would look at them and say, ‘What’s the issue?'”

The issue is that the government is now engaged in an illegal conspiracy against the entire country. The entire government is now simply a criminal organization.

Aceofspades

Grumpy Granny

The Powell and Rice emails are OLD. Are they even relevant in 2016?

Fingolfin

What’s the statute of limitations?

globalcrap

It seems that all liberals are criminals, one way or the other.

ceemack

When your entire political philosophy is based on taking property from people who earned it and giving to people who haven’t earned it, crime is pretty much who you are.

Arttie the Deplorable

Kankles is just trying to a 6 year old again “But Colin and Connie did it too. Waaaa, waaa.”

Eric Myers

fine put them in jail also as long Killary does the same time if you can’t follow the law then you should serve the time cause you all know if we did something like this in the private sector we would lose our job

maggieinWY

If it means Hillary goes to jail, too – yes, put Colin and Condi in the brink with her.

reddarin

Was it classified when sent or retroactively labeled as classified? Odd how that little tidbit is not being stated but is a distinction never missed for HC’s illegal BS.

CobraJet428

Bet the investigators didn’t have to track down those emails to a bathroom closet in New Jersey.

kcinmo

Correct me if I’m wrong but, didn’t they find in Colorado?

CobraJet428

Don’t quote me on this but the backup service company’s hq was in Colorado and, because they were networked, off-sited her emails to the bathroom in NJ.

marcus tullius cicero

…The Queen of Mean is getting the obligatory DemoCommie “whitewash”…

Suzyqpie

That shop needs the ultimate in Royal accoutrements, a ceremonial mace.

constitutionminded

How do we know they are telling the truth? Could be a deflection.

SkyePuppy

So now the Democrats are saying Powell and Rice did something so despicably illegal and contrary to national security that they should be jailed, but Hillary should be let off easy because Powell and Rice did it too? Is that the kind of argument that makes sense to Democrats?

Karla1953

Yeah kind of like we found Bush despicable but this is ok because his people did it………………LMAO

Notsure

We are now a banana republic. The only missing detail is for Obama to don some mirrored sunglasses and pin a bunch of medals to his chest that he didn’t earn. Sort of like his law degree.

Hard Charger

“We’re a banana republic, without the bananas…”

Notsure

“Yes, we have no bananas, but we’ve got lots of debt today!”

Aparition42

Ok, here’s the conspiracy theory. In 2008 the DNC and the party supporters clearly indicated that they didn’t want Hillary Clinton to be president, but Hillary has been deeply entrenched in the D.C. machine for a long time. She has serious dirt on everyone. A few years ago, with the support of the feminist wing of the DNC, Hilary demanded the nomination and threatened to take them all down if they didn’t back her. Joe Biden clearly wanted to run, but for some reason felt that he couldn’t.

The problem, though, is that they never had any confidence in her ability to win. If she doesn’t, she’ll be a two-time loser with no chance of running again. What’s going to keep her from just taking everyone she can down out of spite? So out of nowhere, the Obama administration starts leaking bits and pieces of a scandal that’s either nothing, or punishable by decades in prison. The email scandal is a leash to keep Hillary under control. If she doesn’t release all the ammo she has stored up, then the investigation can just go away.

The problem is, that only works if the next President is willing to play along. They can charge and acquit her, or even convict and pardon her and she won’t even lose her government retirement, but what about all the people that sent and received those emails? That’s not just a few low-ranking aids. We know John Kerry is on the list. President Obama has used “executive privilege” to block the release of some emails, so he’s in the firing line too. How many people are currently living in fear of one of the “outsider” candidates winning?

Wouldn’t it be beautiful if the next president believes in the rule of law? Imagine if Hillary Clinton actually does go down and takes as many corrupt, D.C. lifers as she can with her. The question then, is which Republican candidate is actually willing to facilitate cleaning out D.C., and which ones have too much dirt of their own in the mix to risk such an event.

freeinaz

Now we know what State was doing during the snow storm and the days after, going through Powell and Rice emails. Still won’t help as they didn’t have their own server which seems to be left out of the media accounts and the debate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS8RjCRolSM Sanchez

Were there any outstanding subpoenas or FOIA’s for the production of Rice or Powell emails of a particular time or place as it is still standing for Clinton’s?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS8RjCRolSM Sanchez

Can the corruption get any more in the open before it is stopped?

Deplorable AMERICAN™✓ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

interestedobserver2

All this is no doubt charming, but we all know that Clinton did this whole personal e-mail thing purely to prevent knowledge of her public corruption as Secretary of State from getting out. Mishandling and betraying national secrets was only an unintended by-product of her criminal intent, though it’s what she should be in jail the longest for.

RepublicanDon

… but … but … everyone does it …

The_Kat ✓vilified

Gosh, whatever happened to that transparent administration that the 0 always promised us?

Dan13

The source of all this is Elijah Cummings.
Hahahahahahaha…!

Proud Skeptic

Sure…ten and two are the same as 1340.

RepublicanDon

Private email accounts are the same as private servers.
Confidential is the same as Top Secret Special Access.

There was always going to be a cover-up. This was a weak opening shot, but I am sure there is more to come before DOJ dismisses the whole thing.

Proud Skeptic

It is most likely that some of Hillary’s people will be indicted but not her.

Dan13

Where is the State Dept report that reveal (R) improprieties? There isn’t one, just the word of Elijah Cummings (DeLiar-MD).

Donald Campbell

Gee, Two emails in some dire emergency, or could even be an accident. Setting up your own home server to violate FOIA laws? No, that is not an accident.
I expect Rice to be hung out to dry. It is like sex scandals… A Republican looks at a woman in lust — Immediate dismissal. A Democrat has blow jobs in the Oval Office, not a problem.

20thCenturyVole

Ok, fine. Arrest them all. I have no problem with chips falling where they may.

Right when the Valarie Plame fishing expedition was going on no one looked at Powell’s email correspondence/

This is B.S. pure and simple. Rice stated that she very rarely used email system for State correspondence.

The FBI isn’t the IG and it doesn’t matter how much they try to muddy the waters both Clinton and Kerry have skrewed the pooch.

surfdog

The conversation that happens a thousand times a day .
But mom , everyone does it .
Mom; I don’t care , if everyone jumped off a bridge would you ?

CVN65

“How high is the bridge and how deep is the water?” Usually followed by a smack from Mom.

ToyZebra

Whoever the judge is in charge of this, I hope he’s getting really really pissed off.

G3

They can look all they want, in the end it’s comparing apples to toaster ovens. ONLY HRC had a home brew server and ONLY HRC used her private email account EXCLUSIVELY. End of story.

yestradamous

Yes, also last time I looked, neither Powell nor Rice were running for office.

If they were running for office, this situation could be vetted for importance just like Hillary’s situation. I wouldn’t have a problem with that.

And I’m almost positive if they were asked about it, they wouldn’t lie about it and change their stories 6 different ways!

jcd0101

we all know that the dns and the state department
is doing all it can to COVER UP hillarys crimes
and by the way colin powel and secretary rice didnt have
unsecured home brewed servers..

although they did use public accounts gmail yahoo and others which were not secured
i found it funny that they are still not releasing hillaries and her supporters emails
or logs
but spent how much time and money investigating colin powel
12 + YEARS BACK but they swear they cant find hillaries emails
from 4 years ago.. ?????

bulllllll
shitttttt

chukalukabus

I distinctly remember a news story on Powell when he first started at state. The press was complaining about getting information. According to Powell he had shut down the State Department communications systems because to paraphrase “We walked into a security nightmare from the previous administration. That system was a national security risk and will be replaced.” “I will be using my prior secured DOD system until we get a secure system at State.”

http://www.rustedsky.net JLawson

Funny how ‘national security risks’ seem to stalk the Clintons. One might think they’d eventually get a clue.

setnaffa

She’s attacking Black people!!

derf

There is a big difference between having some of your communication being from a personal account and having intentionally set up a private server with your own private email address to conduct ALL your government business.

And hosting / storing all the data (that out of necessity had to contain classified information) on an unsecured private server.

The server is the problem. And secondarily that she used a private email address with the apparent reason of trying to thwart FOIA requests / disclosure.